I spent way more of my day than I thought I would today doing homework for my Rhetoric of Science and Technology class. The articles we have to read are interesting for the most part, but often tedious to read, process, and then compare and contrast theories presented in each, which essentially is what we … Read more
Thanks to my friend and reader, Kathy, in Texas for this. I just love the whole notion of it. The fact that he (Oscar Wilde) was gay, or paederastic as it were, has nothing to do with my liking it. But it doesn’t hurt… Oscar Wilde was a poseur and what he said was never necessarily … Read more
This study comes from Cindy Meston, PhD, and David Buss, PhD, of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin. First, they asked 203 men and 241 women aged 17-52 in Austin, Texas, to anonymously list every reason they had ever had sex. Those men and women were taking psychology classes or were … Read more
I took a vacation day to actually relax—well sort of—one day of this long weekend. I took advantage of the opportunity to finish up my blog entries of the weekend in New England, and to do my reading for my Verbal Data Analysis this evening. Class was fine tonight, and I stayed in Tompkins, in … Read more
I worked from home today, but have to admit that I didn’t get much IBM work done. I will have to make up for it over the weekend. Grrrr! During lunch I ran to CECE to drop off a box of items for Patti to take to sell in this Saturday’s Cat Angels‘ garage sale. … Read more
I’m a regular subscriber to Slate’s Explainer podcast, where, when people hear something they don’t quite get in a news story, they write in and ask for an explanation about it. Here’s the latest (the last paragraph kills me): Bathroom Sex FAQ: Cruising signals, legal issues, and Larry Craig’s “wide stance.” By Christopher Beam Posted … Read more
Most times when I see someone who died young in the obituaries, and I google their name, I come up with a fatal traffic accident report, if anything. Every once in a while though, something interesting happens like seeing something articulated like this that happened to the person just a few weeks before they died: … Read more
I worked from home today on Joe’s edit of an ITIM adapter installation and configuration guide. Late in the afternoon, and before class, I ran three errands: to Blockbuster in Cameron Village to rent the first movie (of two) that we have to watch this semester in ENG 515, to Karen Lacey’s office in the … Read more
My day started off very emotionally today—with two phone calls. One of my dear, dear friends in life left me a voice mail message yesterday, saying that she had something very important to ask me—that it wasn’t urgent, but that it was important. She went on to say that she didn’t know if it was … Read more
From the profile of a LiveJournal friend of one of my LiveJournal friends, a link to a blog called 5ives… 5ives is a collection of lists of five things. It is written by a person called Merlin Mann — a stony recluse who probably lives in a tree somewhere in Northern California. Little is known … Read more